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Clinical Psychology as an Applied Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. B. Shapiro
M. B. Shapiro*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Institute of Psychiatry (University of London), Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5
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The essential function of the clinical psychologist, from the point of view of society as a whole, must be to make available to the Health Service the contribution of the science of psychology. This means much more than the kind of sophistication which stems from an experience of psychiatric disorder and from a study of the psychiatric literature. We will now consider the implications of such an approach for the three main aspects of clinical work: assessment, modification, and research.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 502 , September 1967 , pp. 1039 - 1042
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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